Now that they're working with Bacon, all of their Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon numbers is one, obviously. But what were they before? Bacon did not share the screen with any of his Following co-stars prior to the show and most of them are from a younger generation and/or are newcomers, so you might assume that they'd have a high Bacon number. But based on our findings, aka using Google's handy "Bacon number" tool (type in an actor's name followed by "Bacon number"), that was definitely not the case. Here are the Bacon numbers for the cast pre-Following.

Shawn Ashmore (Mike): 2 The easiest Bacon number to identify, it's X, or X-Men rather, that marks the spot for these two. Ashmore worked with Hugh Jackman in the original trilogy, and Jackman made a cameo in X-Men: First Class, starring Bacon. Ashmore (and Jackman) will also appear in the upcoming X-Men: Days of FuturePast, which will feature many of Bacon's First Class co-stars. Ashmore and Bacon have a non-X-Men degree of separation of two as well: Ashmore starred in The Ruins opposite Jonathan Tucker, who was in Sleepers with Bacon.

Adan Canto (Paul): 3 The Mexican actor is such a fresh Hollywood face that Google doesn't generate a Bacon number for him, but further investigation shows that his degree of separation is only three. He co-starred in the Mexican film Casi30 with Julio Bekhor, who was in Club Dread with Bill Paxton. Paxton and Bacon were on Apollo 13's lunar mission.

So what have we learned? The game is right: Bacon is the center of Hollywood. (Duh!) But if that's true and with Google making the game easier than ever to find the shortest link to the actor, perhaps we ought to really test our cinematic knowledge and try to find the largest connection. After all, according to The Oracle of Kevin Bacon, there are three famous folks out there with a Bacon number of nine!

Are you surprised by the Following cast's Bacon numbers? What's the highest Bacon number you can find?